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The Hinoki bathtub origin from Japan and the word “Hinoki” actually represents one of the highest qualities of wood in Japan. A few of their qualities include natural bactericidal agents that resist insects and adaptability to humidity.

As compared to western-style bathtubs, eastern style bathtubs are mainly used for soaking purpose and this is especially so in the Japanese culture. The Japanese believe that through soaking in the bathtub for 1/2 hour to a hour, you will find yourself much more energized, rejuvenated and relaxed.

I think everyone pretty much knows that a warm bath stimulates blood circulation but do you know of the curative and emollient effect from the minerals and oils present in the bathtub itself?

This is the part where the Hinoki really shines because of the therapeutic nature of the wood. One of the key minerals that it contains is Thio which is used as raw materials for soaps, antiseptics, perfumes, cosmetics, and hair restoration treatments. Another quality worth mentioning is the oil from Hinoki wood which is said to be able to cure asthma and serve as a tonic for the nervous system.

However, you must take note that for you to fully enjoy the effects of soaking, you must already be “physically clean”(the user have already taken a bath) before using the bathtub.

A first class registered architect design office named “dodici dodici” offers tubs that are custom built as per their client’s order and all of their bathtubs are handmade in Japan by skilled “toyo” (master carpenter) using traditional techniques. Thus, you can take away your worries if you’re thinking about installing one of these bathtubs in your compact bathroom.

Their prices varies according to the size of the bathtub but from what I’ve gathered, be prepared to spend at least a few thousand bucks if you’re interested in getting one for yourself. Even if you have no plans to purchase one of these tubs, you most probably wouldn’t want to miss out on one of these soaking sessions during your next visit to Japan.

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Source: Bartok design

I think its fair to say that there are quite a fair amount of clever inventions in the world and while there are some that are really clever and nice, there are others that are clever but weird.

With no further ado, I shall lay out these 5 very interesting inventions.

CUP COOKIES

First up, here’s a smart cup in which you can put 2-3 of your favorite cookies. You don’t need extra plates and it’s made for right and left handed. Perfect for times where you want to have your tea break discretely.

Just faced the cookie portion towards your desk partition where someone’s around and when they are all gone, you’re free to enjoy your favorite cookie.

BANANA GUARD

Second on the list does seem to be a little weird but nevertheless, it could still prove to be useful if you’re a avid banana eater. I’m sure that there are times where you’ve always enjoy bringing a banana to your workplace or school to eat after a meal only to feel frustrated when you realized that it’s bruised and squashed within your bag.

Fret no more cause Banana guard is here to help. Just pack a single banana into the plastic cover and you can be sure to enjoy perfect bananas anytime, anywhere.

LOCK-CUP

Are you tired of others stealing your coffee cup? Well now there’s a solution. The Lock - Cup has a hole which prevents most people from using it. Only the owner of the cup can use his/hers shaped key to close the hole.

Well, just be sure to remember where you keep your key.

TRANSPARENT TOASTER

For most people, it’s always rush hour in the Morning because you wake up late and you’ve got tons of stuffs to prepare. Stuffs like making your breakfast, bathing and doing up yourself. Most of us would be multi-tasking and everything is usually fine and dandy except for your toast bread.

Now admit it, out of the many times you toast a bread, how many of it were actually burnt because of over toasting. Now, things will be totally different if you got this transparent toaster that allows you to see the bread while it is toasting so you just have to take it out when the color is right.

This idea is based on a transparent heating glass technology and it’s a clever one.

BUTTER CUTTER

The last on the list is something that can be so simple that it’s overlooked as a clever invention at times. One Click Butter Cutter controls your portion as an important part of staying healthy. This ingenious butter cutter delivers one standard pat with each click of the handle. Thumbs up to this one.

I’m sure that there are many more out there and if you know of a few, just click on the Contact Us page and send our the URL on where we can find them.

P.S Thanks to Ben for sending the resource.

To all the fellow readers who’ve visited our site for the last 2 weeks, I just want to reaffirm that this site is not dead and buried, yet! One of the reasons for our(Alvin and me) inactivity is due to another high priority commitment that demands every bit of our attention.

Having said that, I know we could afford that spare bit of time to do a little updating but that’s where the key reason comes into place.  It has been close to 5 months since both of us started writing for this site and we have always started out with the idea of making this site into something that’s totally different from the others.

However, somewhere along the road, we started to lose our ideology and is starting to becoming like one of those sites. Some of the materials that have come into my hands recently made me rethink the progress of DDSquare and it truly inspired me to bring this site back on track.

The world doesn’t need another one of those blog sites but I firmly believes that it needs a blog that has it own voice. Whether or not our readership will prosper or suffer, Alvin and I will do our utmost best to deliver the true voice for this site.

Finally, a big thank you to all friends who’ve shown tremendous support since the begining of this site.